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1. The Impact of Property Taxes and Property Tax Classification on Business Activity

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 1999
   Richard F. Dye, Therese McGuire, and David Merriman

   We investigate the extent to which Chicago’s unusual system of property taxation, whereby commercial and industrial property is “classified” and assessed at a higher rate in Cook...

2. Improving the Accuracy of Downtown Land Assessments

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 1999
   Richard Ashley, Florenz Plassmann, and Nicolaus Tideman

   A tax that is levied on the value of land alone, irrespective of any improvements to land, does not cause any economic distortions. Levying such a tax requires an ability to estimate the value of...

3. A Politician’s Appraisal of Property Taxation

   Israel’s Experience with the Arnona
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 1999
   Dan Darin

   Throughout the world, governments are searching for better taxation systems than those we are familiar with to finance the activities of local authorities. Every known local taxation system includes...

4. Public Values and Conservation Land

   A Case Study of the Norumbega Project, Weston, MA
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 1999
   Charles J. Fausold

   This paper explores public values and attitudes toward conservation land by tracing the history of a proposed conversion of town conservation land to water supply purposes in Weston, Massachusetts....

5. Local Government, Fiscal Autonomy and Fiscal Stress

   The Case of California
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 1999
   Jeffrey I. Chapman

   This working paper defines and extends the concepts of local government autonomy and local government fiscal autonomy, examining them as potential necessary conditions for a Tiebout equilibrium. It...

6. The Potential for a Property Tax in Bosnia and Herzegovina

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 1999
   C. Kurt Zorn, Jean Tesche, and Gary C. Cornia

   In November 1995 the Dayton Peace Accords were signed, ending a three-and-one-half-year war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Despite being constituted as a single country under the Accords, Bosnia and...

7. Legal Suggestions for Enacting Land Value Taxation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 1999
   Steven B. Cord

   If production is taxed, then producers are penalized, but if locations are taxed, then landowners are encouraged to use their sites more productively, thereby promoting economic growth and jobs. Land...

8. La reforma al sistema fiscal sobre la propiedad inmobliaria en Mexicali

   1989–1998
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 1999
   Manuel Perló Cohen and Luis R. Zamorano Ruiz

9. The Price Elasticity of the Demand for Residential Land

   Estimation and Implications of Tax Code-Related Subsidies on Urban Form
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 1999
   Joseph Gyourko and Richard Voith

   The paper presents new estimates of the price and income elasticities for residential land which overcome serious econometric problems associated with earlier analyses. Our estimates are based on a...

10. Planning for Sustainable Development

    Measuring Progress in Plans
    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 1999
    Philip Berke and Maria Manta

    This study sets forth a set of six principles that define and operationalize the concept of sustainable development. Using these six principles, a sample of 30 comprehensive plans is evaluated to...